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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to get some help for your health anxiety. I'm not being snarky, I'm being honest. [/quote]

+1, also no snark, only empathy. As we get older, we tend to need more screening and health intervention, so this is a problem that will only become more burdensome with time if you don't get a handle on it now. It is completely normal to experience some amount of anxiety around something like getting lab work done, but catastrophizing about imagined used needles is outside the realm of normal and will not lead you anywhere good.

Talking to a mental health professional could offer you some tools to help you in the future, too. If something like this were to happen in the future, knowing how to calm your anxiety so that you are in charge instead of the anxious thoughts would help you to stop and ask a question in the moment, rather than allowing the fear to build and making yourself a passenger for the anxiety as it takes off.

It's just no way to live. And I've been there.[/quote]

Stop being dismissive.  This is why many of us struggle to get real diagnosis as doctors and others dismiss serious issues.  [/quote]

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